Of the pieds noirs who headed for northern France, their "souls died", says Anne Loesch with sad nostalgia. Of herself, exiled in a grey Paris, she wrote, "I yearn to run across the beach and look at the sun dying in the sea."

QUESTION: What psychological toll did displacement take on other settler communities in decolonization?

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 1661